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Re: [Zope-dev] pseudo database records for the "in" tag?
by Jeffrey P Shell 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

> From: julian(a)zereau.net I need to know how to structure dynamic tabular data > (returned from an external method) so that the "in" tag can handle it like it > does the results of a SQL method and do automatic variable setting etc. Just return a sequence of mapping objects (dictionaries) or instances. One thing to note when looping over a sequence of mapping objects with the in tag, the parameter "mapping" must be set. For example, with the external method:: def emQuickTest(self): r=[] nl={'name': 'bob', 'job' : 'slob',} r.append(nl) nl={'name': 'jill', 'job' : 'pill',} r.append(nl) return r With an external method object named emQuickTest, use the following DTML:  name:  job:   ("mapping" tells the #in tag to do a 'getitem' instead of 'getattr' to get the names. 'getitem' works with dictionary/dictionary-like objects. 'getattr' works with instances.) This will result in returned HTML like the following name: bob job: slob name: jill job: pill .jPS | jeffrey(a)digicool.com zope, through the web. www.zope.org

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Support for JPEG image sizes in Image
by Martijn Pieters 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I added width and height detection for JPEG images to the Image object. A patch for lib/python/OFS/Image.py can be found at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zmj/Zope/Image_JPEGsize.patch Martijn Pieters -- M.J. Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-6254545 Fax: +31-35-6254555 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------

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pseudo database records for the "in" tag?
by julian＠zereau.net 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I need to know how to structure dynamic tabular data (returned from an external method) so that the "in" tag can handle it like it does the results of a SQL method and do automatic variable setting etc. --- Julian Morrison Programmer (Zereau Ltd)

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Re: bug in Confera
by Service Informatique CHSR 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

Oops, the previous patch is reversed... Here is the good one >Hello, > >I believe there is a bug in Confera: it sets a cookie that is >hardcoded to last until 31-Dec-99. >According to the spec, a cookie that is meant to last forever >have to last until (currentdate+one year). >Attached is a patch that adress that issue. > >CurrentDate+OneYear is computed with: > >e=(self.ZopeTime()+365).rfc822() > >However, as stated some time ago, this poses problem on computers >where the timezone is odd (mine, for example. I had to patch DateTime.py) >So, If the above expression raise an exception, I end up in using >e='31-Dec-99 23:59:59 GMT' > >Regards, Jephte CLAIN > >

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bug in Confera
by Service Informatique CHSR 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

Hello, I believe there is a bug in Confera: it sets a cookie that is hardcoded to last until 31-Dec-99. According to the spec, a cookie that is meant to last forever have to last until (currentdate+one year). Attached is a patch that adress that issue. CurrentDate+OneYear is computed with: e=(self.ZopeTime()+365).rfc822() However, as stated some time ago, this poses problem on computers where the timezone is odd (mine, for example. I had to patch DateTime.py) So, If the above expression raise an exception, I end up in using e='31-Dec-99 23:59:59 GMT' Regards, Jephte CLAIN

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Changes to error handling output - where?
by skip＠mojam.com 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I'm interested in making a change to the way errors are reported, but I'm having a hard time nailing down where the changes need to be made. (All statements reflect what I see in 1.9.0. I'm moving toward 1.10.2, but am not quite there.) I'd like BOBO_DEBUG_MODE/Z_DEBUG_MODE to accept three values: 0 & 1 would have the same effect as they currently do. For any other value, I'd like the system to treat the value as an email address & subject and mail the traceback to the given address using the given subject. For example, a value something like "skip@mojam.com:Bobo Traceback" would send a message to skip(a)mojam.com with a subject of "Bobo Traceback" containing the traceback. I've been able to figure out that BOBO_DEBUG_MODE and Z_DEBUG_MODE are fiddled in ZPublisher.Publish.get_module_info, but I can't see where bogosities in executed methods are caught and handled. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thx, Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/ skip(a)mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/ 518-372-5583

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RE: [Zope-dev] What to raise to generate an HTTP error response?
by Michel Pelletier 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: skip(a)mojam.com [mailto:skip@mojam.com] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 1:52 PM > To: zope-dev(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope-dev] What to raise to generate an HTTP error response? > > > > I have a Bobo/ZPublisher method that detects a missing file > it needs. I > want to return a 404 HTTP response. I know my method is > supposed to raise > something, but what? I know it must be in the docs > somewhere, but I'll be > damned if I've been able to find it. (I hope there's a Zope > site search > tool in the works. How about setting up Ultraseek or > something similar in > the meantime?) > Skip, If your using 1.10.2 ZPublisher (previous versions I'm not sure of) Try returning RESPONSE.notFoundError() (lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py L437, probably in Response.py in older versions of ZPublisher) -Michel > Thx, > > Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" > http://www.mojam.com/ > skip(a)mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/ > 518-372-5583 > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > > (For non-developer, user-level issues, use the companion list, > zope(a)zope.org, http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) >

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What to raise to generate an HTTP error response?
by skip＠mojam.com 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

I have a Bobo/ZPublisher method that detects a missing file it needs. I want to return a 404 HTTP response. I know my method is supposed to raise something, but what? I know it must be in the docs somewhere, but I'll be damned if I've been able to find it. (I hope there's a Zope site search tool in the works. How about setting up Ultraseek or something similar in the meantime?) Thx, Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/ skip(a)mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/ 518-372-5583

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Features / Demos want
by Kent Sin 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

Dear Zope developers, I dl zope recently, I think it will become a great site management product. However, I can not learn much from the docs I found. Here are some things in my mind, Please consider to put them into the docs and give some examples to get people start. 1. Auto (dynamic) Site map generation. A branch can be excluded by assigning a specific attribute to the folder. 2. Auto menu generation. Nodes with specific attribute on it. Can be horizontal or vertical. Just like in Zope's site. 3. News page generation. With automatic expire by designated date. 4. Ad banner insertation and billing management. 5. Search the site. 6. Expire pages by designated date. (will remove them from menu) 7. Backup / versioning 8. Personalize : like that on excite. 9. Access to meta information inside the page: time-last-modify, author, last-visit-time, version, visit-counter, meta-tags. 10. Support Spiders 11. Xml storage and publishing : store them with parsing, searchable, publishing with stylesheet (we may not want to give them all of the XML, may be part of it). 12. A better WYSIWYG authoring tool. 13. Multi-linguage management: use browser's lang perference to select language sent out, with auto menu generate in that lang and change lang menu auto gen. When a page is modified, list all pages need to modify in other languages. (some what like fontpage's task list?). Thanks for

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Re: [Zope-dev] Features / Demos want
by Sin Hang Kin 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

Chris, > This is trivial to do, or are you complaining that you just don't know > how? One of the neat things is to look at the DTML behind zope.org. I > use TinyTables to control the side-bars, but certainly you could do it > in other ways. Yes! I have check the zope / . I press on the DTML tag and got: DTML Source for /  <h1></h1> <h2>Welcome to the Zope Web Site.</h2> NO. I do not see how you did it. The point is that zope is aimed for programmer who somehow got insider information somewhere. For a normal user, I do not think they can figure out how to use it. I hope there will be lots of information/demo codes that tell a new user all the normal tricks they need to do. Of cause, I really love to see how you make the menu. > 3. News page generation. With automatic expire by designated date. Same here. > 4. Ad banner insertation and billing management. Can you say political hotbutton :-) > 9. Access to meta information inside the page: time-last-modify, author, > last-visit-time, version, visit-counter, meta-tags. > Well, here's the problem... what's a pagee? ;-) How do you decide "last >modified" and author when a page can be constructed of objects that have >dozens of other objects inside them? What's a "visit counter" in this > context? Well, I found out that many times when I read the list archive. However, for me I think there are pages concept from the user(browser) point of view. To name it. it either is a document, a folder, a method call which have a url (unique?) on top of the browser. That url define a page to the user's point of view. Since it is not static and can contain many objects which means that we need to define some rules: For example, the author can just be the user who update that object (the one invoked by the url). The last update can be defined as the last update of that object or the last date all objects involved in rendering this page (which may be hard to get) or defined as an attribute which will be updated by the zope (when an object is update). > 10. Support Spiders > What do you mean by this? Since zope is dynamic, I guess that it does not work very well with spiders: I heard from the list that it is not easy to generate all pages by using a robot to travel it. > 12. A better WYSIWYG authoring tool. >On what platform? I don't own a Windows box, Mac and UNIX only... this >will be fixed with WebDAV in my opinion, and it isn't the job of Zope to >push it's own proprietary solution. I know that Netscape communicator and frontpage express can be used for publish pages to zope. However, under the current dtml syntax, I can not modify them to insert zope code into the pages. Rgs, Kent Sin

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